Sorry if it's already been done but I saw a discussion on another forum about "Good bad vocalists" and shockingly someone suggested John as someone who wassn't a good vocalist but had a quality to his voice. Of course I disagree. John was an incredible singer. What would you suggest are examples of John's best vocals? I'll go for...

There's a lot more of course. I almost have his range which is eternally frustrating. I've picked the "quieter" John because although his rocker voice is superb, IMHO it's the floaty yet incisive voice that has the better melodies, transmits the greatest emotion and transitions to falsetto brilliantly.

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There's a lot more of course. I almost have his range which is eternally frustrating. I've picked the "quieter" John because although his rocker voice is superb, IMHO it's the floaty yet incisive voice that has the better melodies, transmits the greatest emotion and transitions to falsetto brilliantly.

I agree (also I'm biased 'cause I like ballads) and how could I have forgotten Oh My Love?!

"No Reply
." I just love how John abruptly busts in with the throaty low vocal in the beginning. It sounds unlike any of his other vocal performances to me. The double tracking accentuates its raw yet subdued forcefulness, and I like the control he exerts to not delve into his screamy rock voice until he loses it on "I saw the light!"

I forgot how amazing his own harmonies are in that song, "doing a Paul", particularly after the song modulates up and he sings that strong "you uu uu well well now and foreverrrr" part

Not strictly in the vein of "best vocal" but Lennon does this bluesy thing with his melodies (it's just the way he emotes, really) which is also a kind of signature: he'll triplet down to a 7th or the root at the end of a line. Down to the root is most common, for instance Yer Blues
is full of them. In And Your Bird Can Sing
'will it bring you do-ow-houn", the "houn" is a 7th. Once you get that, you'll see it everywhere in his singing from I Am The Walrus
to I Want You (She's So Heavy), Hey Bulldog
and many others. In I Should Have Known Better
he does a triplet to root ("to hoo hoo hooiooh hoo") and then a cheeky 7th drop ("o-oh"). I'm not a natural at harmonic analysis so this took me a long time to figure out what was going on, but it's always been the sugar on top for me!

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I was going to make a post about Mother
. The song has been on my mind for a couple of days now. I don’t think there’s a more ‘real’ song than this. I think it’s basically perfect....those shouting vocals. Wow.

Yeah, "Mother
" is great, with lyrics as profound as the blade of a knife. That album has a few other "real emotion" songs, notably "I Found Out
" and "God
". I read somewhere that the screaming vocals toward the end of "Mother
" reflected the "primal scream therapy" he and Yoko were doing at the time. It's interesting how Paul's screaming is technically better, but lacks the vulnerable emotion John brings to it.

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